Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-09-30
GHOSTS ABROAD.

christened . name 50 peculiarly inapprO
PIRATE, We cannot say. She was a tub Il
ever there was one. Such craft Is she
they build by the mile, and saw up int,
lengths. A floating coal box, painted
black. with IN engine and n couple OF
boilers, a rudder and screw. some tarre,l
rope and a score of seamen Of all nation
alitics and no manners; there you havs
the Valiant, and the Thousand and one
ships Of the same ilk which fetch and
carry the riches of the world
On the l2th Of February we cleared out
Of the Tyne, loaded to the muzzle with
coal. ard bound for Venice. We had a
river pilot aboard, OF course, and wer,
dragged out Ia sea, through the double
line Of buoys and the crowd Of shipping.
by a little coffee pot Of . tug. The chief
officer, Mr.. Marks. was in command, for
our new capn had not Yet arrived from
Newcastle. He WAS an elderly man, this
Mr.. Marks, with a patient eye, and q
ssudy goats heard. Mr.. Bubble the
second mate, was a squat little man heav-
lily bearded. who had run away from
home 10 follow the sea, and had never
ceased regrettinS it ever since, f,f, after
''bucketing' about on y three years
cruise, he found himself too mr.ch Of q
salt To be happy ashore, and too heartily
sick of the sea to be contented afloat.
For the rest, our ships company consisted
Of a motley c.csT of twelve seamen, half
a dozen stokers, three engineers, . stew
ard. cook and y cabin lad. 4 regular
old seadog WAS our bo'sun, Jack Dredge,
stumpy and square, his brown. weather
battered face framed in ragged fringe of
whisker; one eve had foundered in his
head, and there was nothing left but An
eyelid and \ hole. The ball Of had been
bitten one night in his sleep by furnishing
rat, and had festered and sloughed out.
He was in mid Pacific then and the near
est surgeon u thousand miles away. He
vas of u taciturn disposition. and fancy
mis- temper had been damaged in the
West Indies by a too liberal allowance Of
pepper in his curry. In his last spell
was native of Newcastle,
where his wife and his lad Bill lived-the
had got hold of him in the
midst Of one Of his tremendous drinking
bouts. and had excited him into a state Of
religious frenzy, and in his temporary ex-
altation he signed the pledge, and, amid
n whirlwind Of applause, fetched q bottle
of rum out OF his pocket, and, smashing
it on the platform. solemnly executed u
hornpipe on the relics. When he came to
his senses next morning and remembered
what he had done, he swore at himself
like u hurricane, but kept the pledge,
though he maltrsated fearfully a Jealous
captain who called about breakfast
time to see how their seafaring proselyte
was progressing.
Well, We hove to down the river Just
where we could feel the lift Of the sea
under our keel, and waited for the return
Of the tug with our skipper. The sky was
banked up with clouds, and q pretty stiff
wind was piping in from the nor nor east.
Tie steam vas ut high pressure and blow
ing OF from the waste pipe by the funnel
We were little more shipshape. for the
men had been swabbinS and swiliing the
coal dust from the decks. At last the tug
steamed alongside, and Mr.. Marks re-
ceived the skipper as he swarmed up the
rope ladder. followed by his portmanteau
and umbrella. He was a dapper little
man and came aboard smoking cigarette.
By the time the fresh meat had been
passed across into the doctors tthe sailors
,ob-iquet for the cook hands the pilot
vas ready to leave US.
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